The Seasonal Reading Challenge discussion

GENERAL GUIDELINES

With thousands of completed task posts to deal with in a challenge, keeping the readerboard updated is a time-consuming job. We try to do this in as accurate and timely a way as possible, and you can help this process by following these guidelines:

1. Include your current cumulative total = all your points (typed – Tickers change).

2. DO NOT INCLUDE THE ENTIRE TASK DESCRIPTION WITH EXAMPLES. This makes it very difficult to sort out which book you actually read.

3.Leave plenty of blank space in your post. You are not likely to run out of space in any normal completed task posting – so use blank spaces between lines freely! It makes it much easier to accurately record your completed tasks when lines are separated by blank space and it is less likely that a task will be missed if it's set apart by blank lines.

4. It's fine to include more than one newly completed task in a post. If you do include more than one task, put them in numerical sequence, rather than jumping around.

Put a blank line between tasks.

5. Before posting, please re-read the task requirements and then re-read your post to make sure you've done everything the task requires.
* Check the first three posts in the help thread to make sure that the book you're posting has not been specifically disallowed by the task creator.
* If you have any question as to whether your book really fits the task, ask in the help thread.
* Check to make sure that you have listed the number of books required for the task – typically, 5, 10 and 20 point tasks require one book, 15 point tasks may require one or two books, 25, 30, and 35 point tasks generally require two books, and the 50 point task generally requires 3 books.

Put a blank line between the book link (OR title & author) line and any other information for the task.

6. Suggested template:

Avid Reader

Task #5.9 - Comfort Read

Outlander by Diana Gabaldon

853 pgs claiming Big Book ticket

This is a comfort read for me, because I know that I'll always enjoy her books and have a wonderful time reading them.

Task # 10.7 - City Lights

City of Bones by Cassandra Clare

Cassandra Clare is a Goodreads Author.

This post: 15 points
Total to Date = 45 points.

REQUIREMENTS FOR POSTS

1.Include your Readerboard name at the TOP of your post.
(Not required if your Readerboard name is the same as the name that appears in the shaded area above your posts.)

2. Include Task # and a short (1-5 word) Task Description.

3. To claim a task in Completed Tasks, the book you use MUST exist on Goodreads. Instructions on manually adding a book to the Goodreads database can be found in post 9 of Add a book instructions. You MUST include a link to the book edition you read. If a task requires details about an author, the author link must be included. For instructions on adding a link, see post 1 of Add book/author/cover Instructions in General Help.
Put book information on a separate line with a blank line after it.

If the task involves a picture on the cover of the book, you MUST include a link to the cover itself.

Note: If NO link, then NO points, NO Big Book tickets, NO Goodreads Author tickets.

4. Include a few words to clarify how your book(s) fit the task if it is not obvious. If your book was specifically approved in the help thread, please note this in your post.

5. Newly completed tasks must be listed clearly and separately - do not include them in a list with previously completed tasks or partially completed tasks.
(If you want to include this extra information, list the newly completed tasks separately at the TOP of your post, and indicate clearly that they are the new ones.)

6. If you want to claim a Goodreads Author or a Big Books ticket, you must say so in your post and include a link to the Goodreads author and/or the book. For Big Book tickets, be sure that the link you provide goes to the edition you actually read, with the correct number of pages.

7. If you choose to read a book contained in an "omnibus" edition, or a play in a collection (see Rule 11 in the Rules of the Challenge), you must identify this in your post.

If you do choose to read an element isolated from an aggregate work, you MUST include a link to the book (isbn) that you read AND provide a link to a separately published work that relates to the isolated title. The use of particular title words, cover colors, or cover images to fulfill tasks applies to the actual book that you read.

8. If your book is an ebook with no print version, you must have it approved for length before posting in the ebook page verification thread: Ebook page verification. Verification is only necessary if there is no print version of the ebook.

If you claim a book in Completed Tasks that exists ONLY in ebook format, you must provide a reference to the ebook verification document when you post ex."Approved @ line #" or provide the post number in the ebook verification thread where it was approved ex. "Approved post #"


9. NEVER delete a post from the Completed Tasks thread.
(You can edit the post to replace all the text with “***DELETED***” but leave the post in the thread so the other post numbers do not shift.)


Requirements for Reposts

1. All posts are validated by the Moderators.
Any questions or problems with a Completed Task will be posted in the "Completed Tasks Posts with ?s / Problems" thread and needs to be addressed.
No points will be awarded until the issues are resolved and none of the data for the problem task will be recorded by the moderators.

2. Reposts must include Readerboard name at the top, Task #, Task Title (or short Description), AND a link to the book.

3. Reposts must include all task requirements including previously posted requirements as well as the missing requirements.

4. Reposts must include only the task(s) that had problems.
Do NOT include all the other tasks from your original post.

5. Include Task # and book link or Title & Author typed in bold in reposts to claim Goodreads Author or Big Book tickets omitted in original posts. A Goodreads Author request must include a link to the author.